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Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Kernels)
San Jose, CA · On-site · Full time · Mid level
$150k–$400k / year
About the role
Build agents to accelerate production of frontier tokens and transform hardware development in an AI native world. Work closely with founders and kernels team on agentic harnesses and operating systems for long-running engineering tasks.
What you’ll do
• Embed with kernels team to identify and solve bottlenecks. • Build and deploy LLM agents in engineering workflows. • Create execution environments for agent self-verification. • Ship full-stack internal products from zero to one. • Design evals and track tool adoption.
What you’ll bring
• 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end. • Experience building agents for complex multi-step tasks. • Strong software engineer with reliable system experience. • High agency in unfamiliar domains. • Product sense and extreme attention to detail.
Life at Etched
Medical, dental, vision with generous coverage and $500 monthly credit for waiving medical. Housing subsidy and relocation support. Wellness benefits and daily office meals. Unlimited compute budget with ROI justification.
About Etched
Etched builds hardware for frontier intelligence, co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing for best-in-class throughput and latency. Backed by top investors, they focus on inference workloads and redefine AI infrastructure.